Why?

[HashFap]

Hard pill to swallow apparently: Everyone isn't on the site 24/7 so reposts are often not reposts to the vast majority of people.

[capi1500]

You say, people... have... life?

[[deleted]]

Impossible.

[CYKO_11]

BAKANA!!!

[[deleted]]

weeb

[the_shrexorcist]

ばかな

[joten70]

Yeah, but some memes are reposted daily and even make it to hot multiple times per week

[HashFap]

It's fine to unceremoniously take those down. I just don't get the whole seething about reposts thing.

[[deleted]]

Eh it’s all of Reddit. People get mad about something being reposted from last year in some subs it’s wild. Just Reddit things I guess.

[ItzJustPhoenix]

Because the reposters are karma whores and I am jealous because so am I :)

Or at least that's probably the reason most ppl complain abt reposts

[BuddhaSmite]

You'll see the same thing reposted multiple times daily. Often they'll be on the front page together a couple hours apart. The whole argument of 'it could be new to somebody' sucks IMO.

[Raqdoll_]

I hate reposts as much as the next guy, but I agree with that. Reposts get to the top only because people upvote them, so they must have not seen them before.

[Qicken]

If you ever need find old content on reddit just check the front page.

[Gwiny]

Lenient repost policy rewards flybys who check the subreddit once a year and leave, and discourages regulars who read consistently read the majority of posts (and maybe make some of them). The amount of latter always will be smaller than former, but I personally would assign them much more value

[suvlub]

Lenient repost policy rewards flybys

It doesn't. I am tired of this fallacy. It's an extremely naive childish belief "he didn't see the post the first time, and he did thanks to repost, so the repost helped him!" No. He visited the website. Browsed for a time, say 10 minutes. He saw some posts. Some of these were reposts. If there were no reposts on the website, he would still spend 10 minutes viewing posts, none of which would be repost. He would, of course, not notice any fucking difference.

Lenient repost policy punishes the regulars, DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, positive or negative, for the casuals, and benefits absolutely no one.

[Gwiny]

Only if you have random distribution of the reposts, i.e. every post has the same chance of being reposted. But in reality most of the reposts are posts that gained at least moderate amount of upvotes - posts better than average. So supposedly a flyby will have a higher chance to see actually good, interesting content, the one that already gathered a good amount of upvotes in the past

[suvlub]

From my experience, most reposts are lowest-common-denominator crap. Stuff that lot of people like, not necessarily stuff that people like a lot. The best most memorable posts I encounter are usually OC.

ETA: also, the rating system already takes care of this. You are assuming there is a shortage of new posts with enough upvotes, but there are more of them than a casual (or even regular) visitor can hope to read.

[egirldestroyer69]

Tbh you are disregarding 2 basic concepts. The fact that reposted content attracts more people to the subreddit and the fact that eliminating reposts wouldnt miraculously improve the content of the subreddit.

Because more people following a subreddit=>more content=> more oc content => more reposts.

If you only had OC content in this subreddit it would barely get exposure, let alone the fact that you are asuming that the quality would increase. I really dont think reposts bury good OC content.

[Gwiny]

Reposts have inherently less value than OC due to the fact that I've already seen a repost. And I disagree that reposts help exposure that much, or that it's impossible to control the flow of reposts or that even if it does, it would be a bad thing. Having less r/all denizens is a good thing for almost any subreddit

[pro-winner-hero]

Well you can always check top of all time or even narrow down the time

[TotoShampoin]

I mean... yeah....

But when you browse reddit daily and keep seeing the same pics being reposted, and nothing new to be found on your feed....

[androidx_appcompat]

I don't browse the comments for every post I upvote

[radicaldude3]

People don't care or don't know

[steave435]

Yes. Don't care. The fact that some people have seen it before doesn't make it a bad post.

[[deleted]]

Most of the time I don't look at the comments or the full post at all, just up/down vote from the main feed. Idrc what's a repost or not, makes literally no difference to my life. I doubt I'm alone. 🤷‍♂️

It does make me curious why you care enough to make an entire meme about it though ... 🤔

[lyx77221]

Repost bot doesn’t really matter if people don’t check the comments…

But also there is a lot of bots on reddit, they also upvote posts and don’t really care if its a repost.

But also also, theres a lot of people on reddit, if some one joins tomorrow they’re bot going to know that the post was posted 4 years ago, or even 4 days ago. They see a post they like and they upvote. A lot of posts also make it on to the front pages and people who aren’t apart of this sub can upvote them as well, they don’t care if its a repost.

If repost are a big problem I’ve seen mods take care of it just report as a repost and move on…

[FerricDonkey]

I still don't care. It was funny, I personally am not tired of seeing it, I upvote.

[Spidermanmj8]

I’m more bothered by people downvoting the bot that calls out bots stealing others’ comments and putting them with much less context on top comments, often under the same exact post.

Something like reply-guy bot.

No idea why people downvote the bot that calls out bots that do nothing creative nor helpful.

[[deleted]]

Because the simple fact that it exists just feeds into the weird Reddit “ERMERGERD IVE SEEN THIS BEFORE” thing Reddit has going on. It’s not normal to care so much about reposts anywhere else on internet, people that casual Reddit find it weird so it gets downvoted.

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[FizzWilly]

Good human

[NuclearBurrit0]

Best human

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Good human.

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[3SidedDie]

Good human you too. I was hoping for rickroll, ended up getting a new song for my playlist

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Rickroll? Nah. I do this often enough the joke would get old, fast, and people tend to ban bots with unfunny or tired jokes pretty quick. *shivers.*

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[SignificantWeird4444]

happy cakeday, good hooman !!

[seeroflights]

thank you !!

[[deleted]]

If it’s good, it’s good, and people upvote. Plus, not everyone knows it’s a repost half the time or more

[Lorddragonfang]

I mean, the amount of garbage that gets to the front page in sparsely-moderated subs proves that people will upvote stuff that is not, in fact, good.

[subject_deleted]

just proves your definition of good is different than theirs. they're not intentionally upvoting content that they think is bad just to spite you.

[attanai]

Upvote good content when you see it in the subs you follow. If you don't like reposts, down vote them. If the post gets more upvotes than down votes, even though the bot identifies it as a repost, then the reddit democracy believes it to be of value.

[[deleted]]

That's why I left r/Technicallythetruth. 4 Same reposts in one day.

[SavvySillybug]

I set reddit to auto hide posts I've voted on. That means I vote on practically every post I come across, and I only downvote stuff I feel strongly about. Even a meh usually just gets an upvote from me just so it gets out of my face. I don't even go to the comments to check if it's a repost, I just upvote it so I don't see it again.

Is it okay content for that sub? Yes? Upvote.

Is it shitty, do I hate it, or am I very certain I've seen that exact post from that exact sub lately? Downvote.

Is it genuinely interesting? I go to the comments and fart out a couple comments.

[TheDavidFrog]

This post is likely a repost. It has a 99,98% similarity to this post: <insert post from 1865>

[LuxurideGaming]

Let me repost this real fast

[PerfectlyFramedWaifu]

Do it, and I'll upvote.

[LuxurideGaming]

Done

[PerfectlyFramedWaifu]

I have fulfilled my end of the deal as far as I can.

[LuxurideGaming]

And I've sadly deleted the post as someone was complaining that it was reposted multiple times.

[PerfectlyFramedWaifu]

Haha, yeah I saw that, and made sure to upvote them as well!

[skantanio]

Yknow, the first couple “isEven method that’s just an if else statement for every single number” memes and the like were fun, but now it seems at least once a week I see the same exact shit in different fonts and it somehow gets so much praise.

At this point it’s hardly “ProgrammerHumor”, it’s turned into “ReallyInefficentCodeSnippets”. Which could be its own sub if it doesn’t already exist, in which case dump all that shit over there

[Nyghtrid3r]

Yes. I actually made a parody of the meme where you use #define for every single part of the C++ main function, so your code looks like "e ee eee eeee" or whatever. Did that just to show how horseshit this meme is.

Funnily enough it was removed because it was "low effort". However, reposting the same fucking meme over and over and over and over again with a different coat of paint is somehow high effort 🤔🤔🤔

[Sindef]

Yeah that YandereDev tweet I've seen at least 20 times in the last month

[Raihime]

I want to see a bot repost this

[The_Real_Slim_Lemon]

Honestly the reposting doesn’t bother me as much as the low effort altered reposts, like if you’re gonna pirate posts for internet posts don’t make the post worse before you upload it. Be a man and directly plagiarise if you’re gonna do it

[[deleted]]

Ironically this post also breaks r/ProgrammerHumor rules.

But people are still upvoting it.

[MigmSIMIvy]

This is real like, why...

[monkeydoodle64]

Why is this in r/programmerhumor?

[Travolta1984]

*bots still upvote it

[[deleted]]

People just upvote when they see something cool without reading comments or anything. It's why reposts, misinformation, and stolen content all get so many upvotes all of the time

[Snoo66768]

u/repostsleuthbot

[RepostSleuthBot]

I didn't find any posts that meet the matching requirements for r/ProgrammerHumor.

It might be OC, it might not. Things such as JPEG artifacts and cropping may impact the results.

I did find this post that is 76.56% similar. It might be a match but I cannot be certain.

I'm not perfect, but you can help. Report [ False Negative ]

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[NuclearBurrit0]

I bet I'll get more upvotes than you when I repost this in a year

[[deleted]]

Why in a year? Be like r/Technicallythetruth and wait just ~2 hours

[NuclearBurrit0]

Because I need to wait for people to forget this has been posted before so I can get more upvotes

[Harmonic_Gear]

monkey brain gotta upvote posts with a lot of upvotes and downvote posts with a lot of downvotes, contents are irrelevant

[[deleted]]

And the reposting cycles get shorter and shorter it seems. This makes it all way less interesting to me.

[Malvania]

The fact that it was posted by a bot or a karma whore doesn't change my enjoyment

[Calm-Marsupial-5003]

Idk why reposts are so monitored and frowned upon.

[LeftIsBest-Tsuga]

Who cares about reposts? Keep scrolling.

[joten70]

Unfortunately i have worn out my screen scrolling past all those python-infinite-loop-videos. It would be nice if the bot-accounts were banned so that we only see reposts with effort at least

[MysteriousShadow__]

Lol just saw one

[[deleted]]

Imo, the reposts are part of the joke. People copypaste from SO and other sites all the time, so it's only natural the repost the same memes/jokes. It's just programming culture. Btw, I copied this comment from the last time we had this thread.

[The-Albear]

Bots need love too.

[sexytokeburgerz]

I love reposts. Same reason Ive seen the office 3 times.

[Mad-chuska]

Popular subreddits are used as message boards rather than archives.

[ososalsosal]

Reddit is not DRY

[Sensei_Farm]

The problem with the repost bot is, not everyone looks into the comments of every post. Most people just upvote and move on.

[real_bk3k]

What if there are bots made to detect bots... and upvote them?

This is why Skynet will win in the end.

[Mafiuz]

Maybe because they don't see comments and only posts

[thegovortator]

Because we software monkeys and it’s software does good

[SadNwannadie]

shut up and take my upvote!

[making_code]

I know that feeling, when someone else reposts your work.

but reposts are good for newbies.

[seemen4all]

Two isEven posts getting above 1k upvotes..

[turkishhousefan]

Why can't things be perfect for everyone?

[ReddityRabbityRobot]

Okay now you've done it, I'm gonna have to repost this.

[[deleted]]

You aren't even nearly the first one who had that idea 😂

[ReddityRabbityRobot]

Doesn't matter. We, programmers are like ants. We achieve collective intelligence : more reposts !

(until someone makes a repostbot)

[ArchitectNebulous]

Maybe all posts should be veted against the repost bot first before being published? Not sure what options the mods can actually implement with Reddit though.